Importing numpy from Thonny: ModuleNotFoundError

Question

I typed into the command prompt: C:\Users\JoshPC>pip install numpy

and it said:

Requirement already satisfied: numpy in c:\users\joshpc\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages

Then in Thonny I wrote:

import numpy as np

and I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy'

So it's some kind of path error, but I am not sure how to solve this.

Solution

Thonny uses its own virtual environment by default. Open "Tools => Manage packages" or "Tools => Open system shell" in order to install into this environment.

Comments

[John Smith]

Thanks for responding ... but unfortunately I get the same error as before. ModuleNotFound

[specialk1st]

For completeness I will add that once you are in the Thonny System Shell you can run either "pip" or "pip3" to install the module you need. For example: "pip3 install requests" OR "pip install requests" to install the HTTP requests module.